Commercial Medicines Unit (CMU)

The CMU team work in partnership with the people who buy pharmaceuticals for hospitals across the NHS in England.

In particular, it works with NHS pharmacists and suppliers to gather and analyse the money spent on secondary care (hospital) medicines. CMU works on behalf of both the Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS.

The people working at the CMU have specialist market knowledge to help hospitals in managing the contracting process for medicines in England and to provide support for projects on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Support is available for procurement in the following areas:

homecare medicines

branded medicines

generic medicines

dose banding

blood products

medical gases

nutrition / enteral products

childhood and other vaccines (UK wide)

pharmaceutical countermeasures

delivery of procurement savings

securing the benefits of the transition from branded to off patent medicines

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